Childcare Services Dail Éireann — 2023-02-09 ============================================================ Kathleen Funchion (SF), Carlow-Kilkenny My question relates to the childminder situation. What are the Minister's plans to change the legal status of childminders, which would make possible the future regulation of childminders and allow access to the national childcare scheme to be opened in future to parents who use registered childminders? I ask for more information on that. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-02-09/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:33+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-02-09